8 FRANCO-AMERICAN NAMES
French 3.0% of American population
French Canadian 0.8% of American population
This is another nameset that I hadn't planned on doing, but then I found some excellent resources on the internet. The OOTP French nameset is something of a mess - it's organized primarily by frequency rather than alphabetically, so I pretty much ditched the whole thing and started over from scratch. There are some names on the list that are practically unknown in France but that I added because they are fairly common in the Cajun community (such as Boudreau and Guidry). There are 1131 names in the OOTP nameset. There are 2302 names in the American-Ethnic nameset.
Sources that I used include:
LES NOMS LES PLUS PORTES EN FRANCE PAR NAISSANCE ENTRE 1891 et 1990
ACADIAN-CAJUN Genealogy & History: AUCOIN
Some prominent Franco-American ballplayers include:
Nap Lajoie
Lou Boudreau
Leo Durocher
Lew Burdette
Ron Guidry
Jim Lefebvre
Jerry Remy
Bill Monbouquette
Andy Pettite
Ryan Theriot
Rabbit Maranville is identified as French-American, but I can't confirm that. Disappointingly, I am inclined to believe that Frenchy Bordagaray's last name is Basque, not French.
8 Franco-American first names.txt
8 Franco-American names.txt